The group Mantar will be releasing their album Post Apocalyptic Depression on February 14, 2025, and album which was recorded in a live setting at Black Bear Studios, in Gainesville, Florida by Ryan Williams. It arrives from Metal Blade Records.

Mantar’s 2022 LP, Pain Is Forever and This Is The End, saw the German duo bring richness to their heavy, blackened Death-Punk elements. However, for Post Apocalyptic Depression, Mantar take a very different approach.

Hanno says:

We wanted to do EVERYTHING different from the last album. The last album was very produced. A huge sounding record, clean production. Display of power. That was what we wanted and felt at that time. Now we are trying to destroy what we’ve built up with the last album. There is a certain beauty in disappointing people’s expectations.

Hanno describes the recording process:

Quick and dirty. We didn’t even bring our own gear to the studio, and just used the equipment that we would find there. There was zero planning involved in the making of this album. We wanted to keep it as primitive as possible. We were more bold this time and literally cut any shit off the songs that we didn’t think was necessary. I think you can hear that playing these new songs is more fun. I feel very connected with my punk roots on this album. Very punk rock production and next to our first album definitely the most raw sounding one.

As for that intensely title, Hanno defines “Post Apocalyptic Depression” as:

…the feeling you get after a mass hysteria. The feeling you get once you invested all your power in a mass hypnosis and suddenly realize there won’t be no salvation. Also, it refers to a very one-dimensional and basic human feeling we all know. Being just burned out after a very tedious and exhausting period of life. Post Apocalyptic Depression also can be taken as the insight that people just refuse to learn. Besides that, it’s a damn catchy and cool name for an album that sounds exactly the way these words sound.